Ten Ways to Spice Up Your Melodies with Melodic Variation shows you how to transform your songs in new and exciting ways.
Some melodic changes can be used to structure the subphrases of your melodies. Other melodic changes help you to create new melodies when you run short of ideas.
- For instance, Steve Cropper took the horn part from In the Midnight Hour.
- Then, he reversed it to use as the horn part for Knock on Wood. Thus, these songs give an example of retrograde in RnB.
- If you do not insist on making the retrograde exact, just as Cropper did not, then your melody making options explode.
- In addition, when you take retrograde and combine it with inversion, you have another way to change the melody so that it doesn’t sound much like the theme.
In this post, I arranged the order of the variations so that they gradually became more removed from the sound of the theme.